Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter had marched on down the hall . |
| 2 | And she rode on down the path into the teeth of the arrogant crowd who had blackballed John 's and her application for membership . |
| 3 | Sharpe rode on down the slope till he reached the stream where , as the stallion drank , he reloaded the rifle and shoved the weapon into its holster . |
| 4 | They both chuckled and passed on down the road . |
| 5 | As the couple passed on down the line , George quickly approached the man . |
| 6 | The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer . |
| 7 | Holding her tray high , she moved on down the passageway . |
| 8 | ‘ About half-an-hour before Paris , ’ she answered , and he was relieved when she moved on down the aisle . |
| 9 | They walked down under the archway of trees to the Littles ' cottage , stood outside the gate chatting to Zach and carried on down the lane . |
| 10 | But the sound of many pairs of feet charging down the stairs carried on down the corridor without pausing . |
| 11 | A pool was contained under a miniature cliff , broken half-way up its face by the route the path took in looping round and pressing on down the valley . |
| 12 | For a moment he stood gazing balefully at the Corsican 's back as he turned away to pass on down the line . |
| 13 | Nearby , the siren of an ambulance cries like a mad baby , its pitch rising as it passes us and heads on down the street . |
| 14 | So our hero stumped off down the yard and came across 4913 . |
| 15 | ‘ I said , ‘ Get lost ’ , and pushed past him and staggered off down the corridor . |
| 16 | Jeez , it looks like all the players and wives nip off down the bank for a quick gas up north . |
| 17 | Mr McDoodle pulled on the reins and they headed off down the drive , past the old hanging tree and out onto the bumpy road . |
| 18 | Imagine my joy when , slowly , slowly , all by itself , it begins to creep off down the slope … |
| 19 | Mr. Decker grinned weakly , made a vague gesture with his hand and moved off down the aisle to buy an ice cream . |
| 20 | Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am . |
| 21 | As the train thundered over a set of points he steadied himself against her seat for a moment , then wandered off down the aisle . |
| 22 | He checked that she was all right , then told her he 'd be back in a while and wandered off down the aisle . |
| 23 | Walking back down the field the cruel injustice of the thing bore down on me increasingly . |
| 24 | Walking back down the hill by hole 17 the pockets of rough grass left by the edge had common spotted and pyramidal orchids together with yellow rattle , quaking grass and other chalk grassland flowers . |
| 25 | In fact , he did begin to run , but then he stopped , abruptly , right in the entrance , turned round , and peered back down the tunnel . |
| 26 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |
| 27 | This perfidious inner reaction drove her into ferocious silence as they headed back down the coast again , berating her stupidity as she watched the lush green hills glide by . |
| 28 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 29 | If the backpack gets too heavy , of course , you could always canoe back down the river to Chepstow ! |
| 30 | Yanto cycled on down the wharf , dodging the mooring ropes until he arrived at the berth of a small Norwegian timber boat called ‘ Marit , ’ registered in Oslo . |